Articles in IIT Ropar
Monkey raids a dustbin in IIT Madras hostel. Doors of the hostel rooms left open invite, not just fellow hostel mates but, a bunch of monkeys in IIT Madras. Amidst the students and faculty, monkeys too seem to be equally a part of the entire grind. From raiding open hostel rooms, dust bins, and even […]
Summer of 2014. Ten of the most precious and enjoyable weeks of my life. Two and a half months that changed me from an average guy, with little experience in public transport and habituated to the comfort of air-conditioned rooms and cars, to someone who can get by on his own in a completely alien […]
Strategies & Mistakes on CAT Preparation : Every management aspirant dreams of getting 99 percentile in CAT, one of the most coveted management exams in India. However, only a handful of people realizes this dream. Yogesh Mehra – 99.03%ile CAT 2014 Nagendra Rawat- 99.10%ile CAT 2014 What drives these people? What motivates them? What does it […]
IIT Madras is one of the few IITs that provide a high level of curriculum flexibility to the students in their academic programmes. The institute offers electives that make up 40% of their curriculum; the highest elective composition amongst those provided in all other IITs. Students have the option to choose their subjects spanning different […]
PET bottle filled with water and bleach, refracts sunlight to illuminate Did you ever think that the empty PET soft drink bottles you throw can actually brighten homes and light up people’s lives? Yes, you read that right. A slum just behind IIT Delhi, Munirka, where even sunlight inside homes seems to be a luxury, […]
The National Programme on Technology Enhanced Learning (NPTEL), a project funded by the Ministry of Human Resource Development (MHRD), is in the last few weeks of the third and final phase. Though amongst the ‘Most Viewed Educational Channel‘ on YouTube, the rural populace seems to be far from making the best use of it, resulting in it being beneficial […]
The inter-IIT Student Exchange Programme is a programme wherein IIT students spend a semester in other IIT campuses and study different courses. This programme is regulated by the MHRD and through the mutual understanding between the partnering IITs. No formal documentation or MoU is required for this, unlike with foreign institutes. Despite such efforts, it […]
IIT’s undeniably enjoy their autonomy! The varied internship opportunities provided by them happen to be a major outcome of this independence. Two months ago, IIT Delhi revised its internship programme and made it optional. In other words, students from IIT Delhi can now avail the internship anytime after the second year upto the final year. […]
IIT BombayX, the institute’s very own Massive Open Online Course (MOOC) provider has completed its first year in offering online courses on its online portal. Taking cue from the Harvard-MIT initiative edX, the concept of IIT BombayX was pioneered by Prof. DB Phatak of the CSE department, to help students all over India get access to top quality […]
IITs introduce off-beat electives in their core curriculum to provide experience, recreation, or alternative education to their students. Although most of the IITs have now accepted the relevance of such subjects, the mentality in some of the top institutes is surprisingly contradictory. IIT Delhi and IIT Bombay are two such institutes that do not allocate […]